Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:02:27 PM
My campaign in my home town is a bit of a shoestring operation. I've been outgunned, outspent and outmanned. His signs are bigger, his supporters are more vocal, his placards are fancier.
The grunt work is old hat to me. I've been doing phone work and door to door stuff for other people for years. Being out in the elements, and the damage it can do to your health is nothing I haven't dealt with before.
It is the main reason why I took a leave from this blog for almost two weeks. But I am at the end of the first phase. Tomorrow starts early voting, and that's where I'll be planted for the rest of the month.
It is inevitable when you are the name on the ballot to be drawn to personalizing this process. You have to keep in mind two things: one, you shouldn't be going into this to get a job. Two, it's not about you, it's about the issues.
Anyone who loses track of that should get the hell out. Politics is full of self-centered, movie star wannabes. The ones who are there just to get things done are the ones who usually get things done.